Definitions for biennials

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biennials bi·en·ni·al

Spelling: [bahy-en-ee-uh l]

IPA: /baɪˈɛn i əl/

Biennials is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in biennials (abeiilnns).

Definitions for biennials

noun

1. any event occurring once in two years.
2. Botany. a biennial plant.

adjective

1. happening every two years:
2. lasting or enduring for two years:
3. Botany. completing its normal term of life in two years, flowering and fruiting the second year, as beets or winter wheat.

Origin of biennials

First recorded in 1615-25; bienni(um) + -al¹

Examples for biennials

Elections in the Senate are of three sorts: annual, biennial, and extraordinary.

She had similar fears when 2010 biennial curators Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari came calling last year.

Those are results of the biennial Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey of public opinion on foreign policy (PDF).

The sessions, however, were biennial, and could only be convened by authority of the Governor.

The state legislature had assembled in biennial session that winter.

At the biennial, only a very few artworks escape to stand on their own.

Grasses are annual, biennial, or perennial, and it is often of importance to know which.

biennial means lasting two years or occurring once in two years.

There are several of them beautiful annual and biennial plants.

It is a biennial plant, and is cultivated for its leaves and leaf-stalks.